Smoki Musaraj.

I am a cultural anthropologist specializing in economic and legal anthropology. My research focuses on theories of money and value; speculative bubbles; anthropology of corruption and the rule of law; migration and remittances; postsocialist transformations; and societies of the Mediterranean.

I have researched and published on ponzi schemes, mobile money, corruption, media whistleblowers, speculative economies, migration and remittances, and urban temporalities and materialities in postsocialist and Mediterranean spaces.

Currently, I am working on a new project entitled, Mediterranean Dreaming: Migration and Tourism in Maritime Cities. I began researching this project in Fall 2023, while serving as Germaine Tillion Chair at the IMéRA Institute of Advanced Studies in Marseille, France.

See here recent publications, blog posts, and podcasts.